A woman in the German city of Hamburg suffered a bite from a wild wolf outside of an IKEA store on Wednesday, state broadcaster DPA reports while marking it as a milestone in the vicious canines’ resurgence into the country as the first recorded attack on a human by one of the animals since their self-reintroduction began a few decades ago. Wolves were declared eradicated from Germany in the late 19th century but starting from the first confirmed sighting in 1998, a few packs migrating westward from Poland of their own volition have grown to an estimated 1,100 individuals nationwide.
Preservation laws obviously help too. Case in point being that the lone wolf who bit the IKEA shopper was trapped and Shanghaied to a wildlife rescue center in Lower Saxony, rather than shot dead for being an aggressive son of a bitch who should’ve just growled menacingly at someone willing to subject herself to the nightmarish self-harm of assembling the shitty pressboard furniture.